[MediaWiki-l] Managing updates of Mediawiki with git (?)

LCJones and Brian Wolff:
Thanks for taking the time to write a reply.
The comments were useful. I am still trying to navigate through the
extensions update. I do want to stick with git.
Updating the extensions seems simple enough:
$ cd ParserFunctions/
$ git pull
$ git checkout origin/REL1_27
HEAD is now at d0a5d10... Creating new REL1_27 branch
What has me confused is that on "https://.../thewiki/Special:Version"
still shows the old 'ParserFunctions' version.
I then tried...
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thewiki/extensions$ mv OLD__ParserFunctions/ ParserFunctions/
thewiki/extensions$ git clone
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/extensions/ParserFunctions.git
thewiki/extensions$ ParserFunctions# git checkout origin/REL1_27
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The last command -- gives me a result that reads
HEAD is now at d0a5d10... Creating new REL1_27 branch
Interesting is that "Special:Version" still shows the old
'ParserFunctions' version. I'm still missing something.
I am fairly sure git pulled the newer extensions and I checked-out the
right version... but an update is somehow missing.
It looks like MediaWiki isn't finding the new extensions -- I'm trying to
go to 1.27.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Composer - talks of updating
vendor.git. I did do that --
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cd ...thewiki/vendor
# git pull
# git checkout origin/REL1_27
HEAD is now at f049e1a... Bump wikimedia/ip-set to 1.1.0
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Is it is related to 'composer.local.json' - which is discussed in
connection with 'Composer'? I did try creating a
"composer.local.json" from the sample.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Composer ???
I haven't wrapped my head about this. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Michael